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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

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